20 Best Overlay Photo Effects in Photoshop for Creatives

Light leaks are a fun tool to overlay onto your photo and achieve a simple and realistic film look.

This collection of 32 light leak actions for Photoshop also comes with eight custom film effects and a mix of colours.

Give your images a realistic snow effect with the Real Snow Photoshop Action.

Every time you run the action, it produces a slightly different result—so you don’t have to worry about your photographs looking exactly the same!

TheFilterGrade Film Effect Overlay pack is a lovely collection of 20 Photoshop actions featuring warm light, multi-coloured light, bokeh, and much more.

The light leaks will add a pleasant vintage overlay to your photographs.

Double exposures are a fun and creative way to make your photography a little different.

The Double Exposure Film Effect Overlay contains actions, gradients, and textures, so you have a whopping 160 options at your disposal.

Indiemasks Overlays for Pictures consists of geometric and abstract, hand-painted shapes.

They're designed to give you creative clipping masks for your photographs.

The pack includes textures and five photo filters to add some extra interest.

A simple, one-click way to customise your images with a cool overlay.

50 Duotone Overlay Effects may surprise you in that it has… you guessed it, 50 options to choose from.

Inspired by the indie music scene, Indie Camera Photo Effects Photoshop combines instant actions with gradient maps and light leak overlays.

These give your images a variety of retro-stylish looks.

Hurray for nostalgia, and now you can add some to your photographs easily, with Nostalgia Watercolor Overlays for Pictures.

Combine frames, textures, and brushes to build up your effect.

Plexiglass Overlay Effects offers 15 abstract effects.

Turn your photographs into cool creative backgrounds for text, posters, and more.

Play one action and all the effects will run, so you can switch between them instantly.